Nearly 26 million viewers tuned in for Game 7 of the baseball World Series, the most since 2017, broadcaster Fox said on Monday after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in a dramatic finale.

The Dodgers were the first team in a quarter-century to win back-to-back titles on Saturday as they capped what pundits have declared one of the greatest-ever World Series.

The decisive Game 7 averaged 25.98 million viewers, as a reliable stable of stars like Japan’s Shohei Ohtani bolstered the international appeal of the Canadian-American clash.

It was the first time since the Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros six years ago that the annual Fall Classic reached a full seven games.

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(Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; editing by Mark Heinrich)

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